Is photography an art?

It can be.

Snapshots - No.

Skilled images created with an eye for composition, color and design - Yes.

Photography equipment is merely a tool. A paint brush can be used to create art or to paint a house. One is art, the other is not. Same thing with photography.

YES photography is an art.

Art in general is a difficult concept for most people to explain. However, there is always one thing in common with all art forms: not everyone is going to like it. Opinions differ on artists, always, and photography is no exception.

Someone might not like Annie Leibovitz and may love Ansel Adams--but regardless of taste, both are photographers who have studied and perfected their own forms of their art in photos.

Anyone can take a point and shoot camera and take a snapshot. But it takes a true artist to see meaning in the lens every single time they shoot. There is a technique, there is a process to photography and it can be mastered. So in that sense, I'm sure that it's an art. There isn't a doubt in my mind about it.

Think about other art forms and compare it. Can anyone pick up a paint brush and paint on a canvas or a slate of wood? Yes. But will everyone's work be called a masterpiece? No. Photography is an art because it is always in the eye of the beholder. Each machine (camera) has different uses and functions and it takes a true master photographer to be able to manipulate each machine to get the result they want.

Of course it's a type of art. Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.

IT definitely is..art is defined as 1 : skill acquired by experience, study, or observation...photography falls in this category...2.the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced...once again, photography.

Art takes any medium (paint, sound, photography, the written word) and does something interesting with it. But not all photography is art, just like not all written word is poetry! :-)

yes some is, no some isnt

mere recordings are not art and never will be

made images can be art

taken images are snapshots

made images = thought has gone into the image, lighting, composition, view point, processing et cetera before pressing the button, before arriving at the destination, before setting up a set

snapshots = someone standing there pointing the camera at something and pressing the button - snapshooting - not art

well definetly the category this question is in is Arts and humanities>Visual arts> Photography so why ask a question that was answered before asking

of course, it require art sense to judge and take a good picture.

yes its art. because you are creating something.

definately. and its what you believe, not us.